Late 18th-/early 19th-century reprint of the 1616 edition (STC 5811), intended to be a facsimile, but with many variations. The original has "Fetherston" in imprint and leaf A1 blank except for signature mark on recto

BL dates this edition at 1730: "An eighteenth-century factotum (a bust at head) is on p. 44, amongst other clues to its eighteenth-century provenance."--ESTC. Not after 1808, as CSmH copy is bound with end papers with water-mark date "1808."

Signatures: A⁴(-A4) B-H⁴

Without A4, which, in the original edition contains illustrations of Coryate on both recto and verso

Woodcut title vignette (Coryate astride an elephant); woodcut head and tail pieces; woodcut initials

English short title catalogue

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is the second of two items bound together in a single volume titled "Coryats Crudities." This volume contains [1]: Coryats crudities / Thomas Coryate (1611) -- [2]: Thomas Coriate, traueller for the English vvits: greeting (18th century facsimile (ESTC T228561)). All leaves are remargined at the head

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